Alleged robber tracked down after he uses stolen credit card at McDonald's

December 03, 2012|By Manuel Gamiz Jr., Of The Morning Call

A teenager's hunger for McDonald's food helped lead to his arrest in connection with an Allentown robbery over the weekend, according to court records.

After a group of four robbers, one with a long-barreled handgun and another with bolt cutters, took a lottery money bag and purses belonging to store clerks at the Redner's Quick Shoppe on Airport Road early Sunday, Christian Ramirez, 17, of Allentown, drove to the McDonald's at 14th and Tilghman streets, according to court records.

According to a criminal complaint:

At the McDonald's, the group went through a drive-through lane and paid with one of the credit cards that was stolen from the convenience store. Police reviewed surveillance cameras and got the license plate of the vehicle.

Later, police tracked a cellphone taken from the convenience store to N. Seventh and Chew streets. There, police found the vehicle with three people inside.

The driver was identified as Ramirez and he agreed to talk to police, admitting that he and three others robbed the Quick Shoppe.

Ramirez, of 1045 Allen St., is charged with robbery, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal conspiracy. He was arraigned before District Judge Robert C. Halal and sent to Lehigh County Prison under $100,000 bail.